Wind Power Generation
Data, Graphs, and Maps
Grades6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Science, Mathematics
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Provided by Our World in Data
What it is
- This resource from Our World in Data displays annual wind power generation data in the form of an interactive chart, a map, and a table.
- Students can see how many terawatt-hours of wind power a country has generated annually since 1965.
Teaching tips
Positives
- Seeing how much wind energy has been generated by leading countries can make students hopeful for the potential in the future.
- Students can use the many features for customization and data isolation to focus on the data that is most important to them and their area of study.
Prerequisites
- Students may need the terms onshore wind, offshore wind, and terawatt-hours defined.
Differentiation & Implementation
- This interactive can be used in geography classes as students explore the data and geographical data to determine the environmental conditions necessary to produce wind power.
- Students can use this data to support their understanding of the media literacy lesson Wind Farm Site Selection: A Community Debates the Issues.
- To connect wind power and other forms of clean energy to climate solutions and greenhouse gas emissions, teachers can combine this data with Project Drawdown's page on electricity as a solution. Students can also use the Installed Solar Energy Capacity, Solar Power Generation, and Installed Geothermal Capacity data from OWID to make additional connections.
From the scientist review
This resource presents annual electricity generation from wind, measured in terawatt-hours (TWh) per year. With a variable time span from 1965 to the present, the datasets included both onshore and offshore wind sources. Students can explore and understand the relative change in electricity generation from wind. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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